First year Hastings College student Story Talbert of Morrison, Colorado, was looking for a college with a rigorous academic program that would also allow him to play his favorite sport: baseball. Talbert found all that — and a scholarship — at Hastings and now feels like he is where he belongs. Check out the video […]
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Hali Hansen came to Hastings College with bright lights in her eyes, hoping to be a college soccer star. While injuries got in the way of that dream, she flipped the storyline to “learn how to support the girls without being on the field” — and focus instead on being a better teammate and a
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Cory Sexson ‘09 was baffled when it came to what he wanted to do with his career when he graduated from Hastings College. After managing various marketing campaigns, receiving his Master of Business Administration, and becoming a team leader at Tropicana, Sexson’s passion has become clear. He loves to lead people — and was recently
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When pressed to come up with a business idea for her entrepreneurship class, Hastings College junior business administration major Carli Russell said a dream of hers rose to the top: her previous work as a drive-thru coffee barista inspired her idea of owning a mobile coffee and pastry business. After developing her business plan for
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Alli Kennon ‘20 never envisioned herself working in her current job when she graduated from Hastings College — simply because the job didn’t exist yet. As a TikTok specialist at The Knot, a popular wedding website and planning company, Kennon uses this emerging social media platform to create content that promotes the company. Kennon found
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It was a casual question raised in conversation among friends chatting in a small frontier store on the northwest corner of Hastings Avenue and Second Street, long before the streets were named Hastings Avenue and Second Street. They didn’t know it at the time, but this simple question would be the beginning of a now
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The Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum near Ashland, Nebraska, has displayed mementos and artifacts from the life of Clayton “Astro Clay” Anderson ’81, the state’s first and only astronaut, since the HC alumnus flew to the International Space Station in 2007. In a colorful exhibit called “The Heartland Astronaut,” visitors can see his NASA
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Stephanie Mlynarik, a senior studio art major from Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, is gaining an experience she never thought was possible. Mlynarik spent the summer before her senior year working in the archives of the Stuhr Museum. “Not everybody gets this type of experience,” Mlynarik said. Mlynarik found this internship with the help of the alumni
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Kyle Weber, a 2017 Hastings College graduate, was promoted earlier this year to senior ranger at Chatfield State Park in Littleton, Colorado. Weber has been working for Colorado Parks and Wildlife full time since 2018, but got his start with the organization through working seasonal jobs during the summers of his college years. As Weber
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While at Hastings College, RuAnn (Ulmer) Root ‘86 was skeptical about her classes in writing, public speaking and nonprofit accounting — requirements for her Human Service Administration degree. “To be honest, I thought I would never use the information from those classes. However, have they ever come in handy,” said executive director of Court Appointed
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